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The College library has various works by Dr James Currie, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh...

The physical benefits of exercise have been known since antiquity. Medics and others have written widely on the...

There were a number of ways in which Scottish medicine at this time was distinctly different from that of England...

Many plants contain nicotine but those commonly cultivated for tobacco are indigenous to America. The first clear...

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Most of the portraits we hold include specific objects and visual references that relate to the careers of the...

In his biography of John Baron, Joseph Pettigrew quotes Baron’s description of his first meeting with Edward Jenner...

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Bathing has been prescribed as a treatment in one form or another since at least the time of Ancient Greece. 

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